In certain cases the Limited Partnership has significant asset protection and tax advantages. For example, in a Family Limited Partnership the Parents take the responsibility of day-to-day management as a 2% General Partnership (each Parent 1%) and retain 98% as Limited Partners.
Milk thistle was approved in 1986 as a treatment for liver disease and it is widely used to treat alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic fatty liver, cirrhosis, liver poisoning and viral hepatitis. It has also been shown to protect the liver against medications such as acetaminophen, a non-aspirin pain reliever.
Milk thistle is said to treat cirrhosis and to protect the liver from viral hepatitis, the damaging effects of alcohol, and hepatotoxic drugs (1). Milk thistle may also improve glycemic control in type 2 diabetes (2) and individual case reports claim fatality reduction in mushroom poisoning (3). A 2007 Cochrane review of 13 randomized clinical trials assessed milk thistle in 915 patients with alcoholic and/or hepatitis B or C virus liver diseases (4).